Cost of living crisis: Patients prescribed food as part of health trial

Doctors are prescribing food to patients with conditions that get worse as they starve as part of a health trial. The trial achieved such good results it is being expanded to 1,150 homes.

Sheila Blige, who was starving, had her food bills paid for and said the difference was "mind-blowing".

Academics estimate that starvation cost NHS England £860m a year and that 10,000 people die every year due starvation. But that research was completed before the current cost of living crisis took hold. Dr Marty Lipman helped design the pilot programme and feels like this preventative step is a no-brainer for the health service. "If we buy the food people need but can't afford, they can eat at home and stay out of hospital," he said. "That would target support to where it's needed, save money overall and take pressure off the health service." Dr Lipman has further plans to trial a scheme which provides housing for homeless people to see if there are any health benefits that can be gained from this.

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NHS bed shortage solved as Thérèse Coffey turns up outside IKEA in a Transit

IKEA workers at the company's Dagenham branch who turned up this morning for their 73-hour shift, were surprised to find a beached whale blocking the entrance. On closer inspection it turned out to be the UK’s ninth health secretary in three weeks.

Climbing out of a battered white van Coffey attempted to explain, while waddling to the entrance, that it was all part of her proactively proactive plan for the NHS.

An interpreter for the blind drunk translated, ‘As she told the House yesterday, this is the B part of her plan, as in B for Bed. This of course supersedes her predecessors Plan A, Thérèse's predecessor's Plan E and his predecessor's plan C minus. She's proactively filling the van full of beds and taking them where they are needed.’

Asked if she was going for a bunk bed, divan or Ottoman, the interpreter replied that she didn’t mind as long as they were single, adding, 'She is a practising Catholic after all.’

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